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Solano County Superior Court — Department 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Revised Standing Order Regarding Defendant's Personal Appearance at Trial Calling Hearings (Miscellaneous Order MISC-24-2022, November 29, 2022)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Revised Standing Order Regarding Defendant's Personal Appearance at Trial Calling Hearings (Miscellaneous Order MISC-24-2022, November 29, 2022), Superior Court of California, County of Solano; posted on the court's Local Rules of Court page (https://solano.courts.ca.gov/general-information/local-rules-court) at https://solano.courts.ca.gov/system/files/miscellaneous-order-misc-24-2022-revised-standing-order-re-defendant-personal-appearance-trial.pdf, fetched 2026-10-09.

Summary

Department Five's revised standing order, effective immediately: defendants must be personally present at Trial Calling hearings in Department Five unless counsel is empowered to represent their interest (including accepting or rejecting an offer and entering a plea at the Trial Calling); unless good cause is shown, cases will not be continued for counsel to consult with a defendant.

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California > First Appellate District > Solano County > Superior Court of California, County of Solano > Department 5

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SOLANO DEPARTMENT FIVE ***** In Regards: Defendant’s Appearance at Trial Calling Hearings Case No. M-24-2022 REVISED STANDING ORDER REGARDING: DEFENDANT’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE AT TRIAL CALLING HEARINGS Department Five of the Superior Court of CA, County of Solano, HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Effective immediately, defendants are required to be perso

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Solano — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: November 29, 2022
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-solano-2026-10-09

Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Solano build 2026-10-09) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-solano/docs/miscellaneous-order-misc-24-2022-revised-standing-order-re-defendant-personal-appearance-trial.pdf (336247 bytes, sha256 17d977e14e5c842dc4a6ae66ab8fb0b590391c10cd7e9d5fcf27b8318fd95af0; 1 page; a scan, page images, no text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page and the file's own text layer where it has one): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 2 spans the readings do not hold - at the caption's cells, handwriting, page breaks, footnotes and section signs, where the readings run the parts in another order or misread them - read again on the page images (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-09-resolved.txt). The clerk's filed stamp, the signatures and seals and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text (a handwritten date or line is carried where it fills the order's own text); the transcription's closing note, which describes them, is not published. Attached to Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones: the card is Department 5's, where the court's Judicial Directory page (no effective date printed) seats Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones.